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(No Model.)

F. G. HILLS.

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FREDERICK C. HILLS, 0F NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

REFRIGRATING-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,163,dated June 412, 1883.

n Application filed January 2, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK CALVIN HILLS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerator-Cars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this speciiication. I

This invention relates to refrigerator cars or carriages for railway service or other land conveyances, the object of the invention being to enable such car or carriage to be supplied with perishable edibles or articles at points in its of those previously admitted.

IWIy invention consists in a refrigerator ear or carriage subdivided into compartments of a size, adapt-ed to be lled and closed at one or more points of stoppage, not to be opened again until the destination of the car is reached, by which means a car may be supplied at various points in its journey without exposing the art-icles already stowed in it.

The drawings accompanying .this speciication represent, in Figure I,a sectional elevation of a refrigerator-car containing my improvements. Fig. 2 isa horizontal section of the same, while Fig. 3 shows a modification.

In these drawings, A represents a refrigerator railway-car of ordinary form in general construction. Y

In carrying out my invention I subdivide the car into a series of compartments, B B B, &c., which have no connection with each other; but each has doors C C, 85e., through which fit may be loaded and unloaded.

The refrigerators may be of such form, number, and location as may be found fndesirable or necessary.

As shown in the accompanying drawings, ice-tubes of suitable construction are placed at the outer ends of the end compartment and between the central compartments, but this arrangement may be varied according to circumstances.

I consider my invention to consist in a refrigerator car or carriage subdivided into compartments having no intercommunication, and adapted each to be supplied without exposure of or injury to the contents of another.'

In the ordinary method of transportation it often happens that a refrigerator-car is opened to receive supplies several times between its st-arting-point and destination. With each opening of the car warm external air is ad- Init-ted, which raises its temperature and exposes its contents. IVith my divided car this danger is obviated, and a portion of the car thus subdivided may be devoted to express or other purposes, and the remainder as refrigerators. f

provide refrigerator-chests with drawers or compartments which may be supplied independently. This I do not claim; but

I claiml. A refrigerator car or carriage subdivided into compartments having no intercommunication, and each compartment being adapted to be supplied with articles to be refrigerated in dependently of the other compartments, substantially as and for purposes stated.

2. A railway-car constructed with separate compartments which have no communication with each other, each compartment having at one end a separated space for refrigerants, and at the other end a doorway through which the articles to be refrigerated may be introduced.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

I am aware that is has long been common to 

